Two groups in NBA historical past had ever made 29 three-pointers in a recreation earlier than this week. Friday evening, the Boston Celtics turned the second crew in 5 nights to tie the single-game report for threes.
Sam Hauser led the best way with eight threes, and Payton Pritchard sank 5 of his personal within the Celtics’ 144-118 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Boston had an opportunity to interrupt the report, tied by the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday, however they dribbled out the clock on the buzzer.
Boston Celtics are lighting it up from deep
Although they are not placing up photographs on the identical fee as final season, once they led the NBA with 48.2 makes an attempt per recreation, the Celtics are nonetheless third within the NBA in complete three-pointers. Friday, they shot 29-for-59, in a recreation they led by 19 factors after one quarter and by 31 at halftime, capturing 17-for-30 earlier than the break.
4 totally different Celtics had three triples within the first half. Probably the most important effort could have come from deadline pickup Nikola Vucevic, who was capturing 31.3 p.c from distance earlier than Friday however made all three of his first-half makes an attempt (he completed 3-of-5). The tempo slowed down because the starters rested with an enormous lead, however Hauser shot 5-of-7 within the second half.
